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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“ There’s no interest in this town anymore. ”

— Robert Berry, a selectman in Winn, one of several Maine communities considering dissolving their town governments and joining the state’s Unorganized Territory instead.

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A new wave of rural Maine towns is thinking about disbanding . Winn is one of several communities considering dissolving their town governments and joining Maine’s Unorganized Territory.

A guide to the years-long process it takes for a Maine town to deorganize . The path to formally dissolve a town and join Maine’s Unorganized Territory is a 12-step process th

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